This is a list of English determiners.
Alphabetical List (excluding numerals above three)
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All cardinal numerals are also included.[1]: 385
Sub classifications from CGEL[1]
Articles[1]: 368
- a / an
- the
Demonstratives[1]: 373
- that / those
- this / these
Personal determiners[1]: 374
- we / us
- you
- them (In some dialects such as the Ozark dialect.)[2]: 6
Universal determiners[1]: 374
- all
- both
Distributive determiners[1]: 378
- each
- every
Existential determiners[1]: 380
- any
- some
Cardinal numerals[1]: 385
- zero
- one
- two
- three
- four
- five million
- etc.
Disjunctive determiners[1]: 387
- either
- neither
Negative determiners[1]: 389
- no
- none
Alternative-additive determiner[1]: 391
- another
Positive paucal determiners[1]: 391
- a few
- a little
- several
Degree determiners[1]: 393
- few / fewer / fewest
- little / less / least
- many / more / most
- much / more / most
Sufficiency determiners[1]: 396
- enough
- sufficient
Temporal determiners[1]: 356
- last
- next
Interrogative determiners[1]: 397
- what
- whatever
- which
- whichever
Marginal determiners[1]: 392
- certain
- said
- various
- what
- whatever
- which
- whichever
Compound determiners
- a few, a little[1]: 391
- -body, -one, -thing, & -where[1]: 411
- anybody, anyone, anything, anywhere
- everybody, everyone, everything, everywhere
- nobody, no one, nothing, nowhere
- somebody, someone, something, somewhere
- once, twice, thrice[3]: 581
- one hundred, two thousand, three million, etc.[1]: 356
- many a[1]: 356
- whatever, whichever[1]: 396
Other grammars
Pronouns[4]: 61
- my, your, his, her, our, their
- its
- whose
- one's
Nouns
Any genitive noun phrase such as the cat's, the cats', Geoff's, etc.
Predeterminers[4]: 68
- half, a third, a quarter, etc.
- such, quite, rather
- twice, thrice
- both, all
- double, triple, quadruple, etc.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43146-0.
- ^ Randolph, Vance (1927). "The Grammar of the Ozark Dialect". American Speech. 3 (1): 1–11. doi:10.2307/451386. ISSN 0003-1283. JSTOR 451386.
- ^ Payne, John; Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2007). "Fusion of functions: The syntax of once, twice and thrice". Journal of Linguistics. 43 (3): 565–603. doi:10.1017/S002222670700477X. ISSN 0022-2267.
- ^ a b Collins COBUILD English grammar. London: Collins. 1990. ISBN 0-00-375025-6. OCLC 21408083.